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Had a nice visit with my step dad Rick. He’s from Florida but was in town for a few days to play at the Norton Buffalo Harmonica Festival in Sonoma and a few other select gigs. Last time Rick was on the boat, we were just framed up in bare steel… lot…

Some pics from a BBQ at the build site last weekend…

I’d been keeping an eye out for some aluminum diamond plate material to make deck plates for the engine room for a while. Most of what I had found was either very expensive, or too lightweight to use for decking without some major re-enforcement. I men…

As soon as the engine was on the rails, I got right to work drilling and bolting down the engine mounts. Even though we are “on the hard” and unlikely to move (unless there’s an earthquake), I still don’t like the idea of 1200 pounds of steel and iron …

Installed the engine last Friday… 

Finished prepping the engine for install. Engine mounting brackets are finished, painted , and installed. I built a lifting rig for the engine/gearbox combo that should give us plenty of maneuverability when we go to swing the engine into place We need…

Just a few shots of the fabrication that I’m doing on the engine mounting brackets. Hope we get these right the first time…

Sue and I installed all the ports on the stbd side last Sunday. They are completely bedded in the same butyl rubber caulking tape that we used for the windows and doors. These ports are made by New Found Metals and are a great value and seem to be of v…

With the windows and doors installed, the first thing that I wanted to get done inside the boat was the installation of the wheelhouse sub-floor so that we wouldn’t be climbing around on beams when we entered the boat through the wheelhouse door. First…